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2 alerts match the current filters. tactic: TA0007 ✕ technique: T1069 ✕

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  • Local group enumeration Informational Identity Analytics 2 variations

    A user performed an enumeration on local groups to retrieve their details.

    Activation:
    14 Days
    Training:
    30 Days
    Test:
    5 Minutes
    Deduplication:
    1 Day
    ATT&CK tactics: Discovery (TA0007)
    ATT&CK techniques: Permission Groups Discovery: Local Groups (T1069.001) Permission Groups Discovery (T1069)
    Required data: Windows Event Collector XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH)
    Attacker's goals: An adversary may leverage local groups discovery to identify privileged groups and escalate privileges.
    Investigative actions: Determine the user, hostname, and process that performed the group enumeration. Inspect process, command-line arguments or scripts used. Check for any privilege escalation or lateral movement attempts from the source system. Check if the tool used to enumerate the local groups is a known or an approved tool. Review the logs for suspicious activity from the same host or user.

    Variations

    Local group enumeration for the first time

    Low overridden

    A user performed an enumeration on local groups to retrieve their details. overridden

    Local group enumeration using a builtin Windows binary

    Informational overridden

    A user performed an enumeration on local groups to retrieve their details. overridden

  • Local group enumeration via RPC Informational 1 variation

    A user enumerated local groups via RPC.

    Activation:
    14 Days
    Training:
    30 Days
    Test:
    N/A (single event)
    Deduplication:
    1 Day
    ATT&CK tactics: Discovery (TA0007)
    ATT&CK techniques: Permission Groups Discovery: Local Groups (T1069.001) Permission Groups Discovery (T1069)
    Required data: XDR Agent with eXtended Threat Hunting (XTH)
    Attacker's goals: An adversary may leverage local groups discovery to identify privileged groups and escalate privileges.
    Investigative actions: Determine the user, hostname, and process that performed the group enumeration. Inspect process, command-line arguments or scripts used. Check for any privilege escalation or lateral movement attempts from the source system. Check if the tool used to enumerate the local groups is a known or an approved tool. Review the logs for suspicious activity from the same host or user.

    Variations

    Remote local group enumeration via RPC

    Informational overridden

    A user enumerated local groups via RPC. overridden